The Hendricksen's: May 2014

Friday, May 16, 2014

Im not good at this anymore...

But I thought I would write a quick little post. School is almost out for summer...again. My, these school years keep going faster and faster. I love having all of my kids home. I love having them all together. Life is busy...but not too busy. Every night that we kneel for family prayer I am so so very grateful that I have all of my kids home with me...under one roof, safe and sound. I love them so much!! I hope they know that.

Jentry got a job at Kneaders and is doing great! She finally got her licence and Ive actually let her drive to work a couple of times. And take my car. Please bless she does not wreck it. I hold my breath the whole time she is gone.

Brinley has done really great this year in school. She has taken responsibility for her homework and I never have to ask her if she has it done. She does get overwhelmed at times and I can when she needs extra help because she starts snapping at her brothers even more than she usually does. I just have to sit down with her and we work through her projects and she calms right down.

Ty has really gotten into Pokemon cards this year. You can tell every time you walk into the house. They are everywhere. He talks about them constantly. His favorite past time is looking on Amazon for new cards.

Chase is ALL boy. That boy could play outside from sun up until sun down. And he usually does. It's hard work reeling him in for homework. He will definitely enjoy summer!

We have lots to do this summer. I already feel like with all of our plans summer is almost over! It will be fun though.

I belong

Elder Jeffrey R. Holland in speaking of the divinity of The Book of Mormon said: For 179 years this book has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no other book in modern religious history—perhaps like no other book in any religious history. And still it stands. Failed theories about its origins have been born and parroted and have died—from Ethan Smith to Solomon Spaulding to deranged paranoid to cunning genius. None of these frankly pathetic answers for this book has ever withstood examination because there is no other answer than the one Joseph gave as its young unlearned translator. In this I stand with my own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, “No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it, unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.” I testify that one cannot come to full faith in this latter-day work—and thereby find the fullest measure of peace and comfort in these, our times—until he or she embraces the divinity of the Book of Mormon and the Lord Jesus Christ, of whom it testifies. I ask that my testimony of the Book of Mormon and all that it implies, given today under my own oath and office, be recorded by men on earth and angels in heaven. I hope I have a few years left in my “last days,” but whether I do or do not, I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgment bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true, that it came forth the way Joseph said it came forth and was given to bring happiness and hope to the faithful in the travail of the latter days.